The kreutzer sonata tolstoy5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Tolstoy’s original plan was to have his story read in public with Repin’s visual response to the music in the background, although this performance never took place. Immediately afterwards, Tolstoy suggested that the actor Andreev-Burlak and the artist Ilya Repin, who were present, could help him express the feelings evoked by this music. When the first draft had been written, a family friend performed Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata (Sonata No. Another was a story told to Tolstoy by a friend who had heard a fellow train traveller talking about his wife’s infidelity. ![]() This was one source of inspiration for the novella. In February 1876 a woman calling herself ‘Slavyanka’ had written to Tolstoy her thoughts on the appalling situation of women in contemporary Russian society. In the 1880s Leo Tolstoy mainly focused on writing non-fiction his novella The Kreutzer Sonata is one of the few exceptions. ![]()
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